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The transparency initiative quietly disappeared from the U.S. government’s rule making docket just a few months after OpenAI’s top executive and his wife poured $25 million into Trump’s biggest super PAC, MAGA, Inc.
Without the rule, national security officials and other federal regulators trying to assess and contain AI threats “are flying with a lot less instrumentation than they would have had,” said Vishal Misra, vice dean of computing and artificial intelligence at Columbia University’s engineering department.
“What exists now is much looser,” he told The Lever. “As far as I can tell, there is currently no general federal rule that says: If you are training a sufficiently capable frontier model, you must routinely tell the government what you are building, how it is secured, and what unexpected behaviour you are seeing.”
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